Early home environment and television watching influence bullying behavior
...gest some steps that can be taken with children to potentially help prevent bullying. Maximizing cognitive stimulation and limiting television watching in the early years of development might reduce children's subsequent risk of becoming bullies."...Education program reduces incidents of shaken baby syndrome
... shows that an effective prevention campaign could potentially save the lives of many children and significantly improve the lives of many others." The study titled, "Preventing Abusive Head Trauma Among Infants and Young Children: A Hospital-Based, Parent Education Program," was published April 4, 2005 in Ped......s and because they are ultrasonic, they do not use potentially harmful ionizing radiation. *The system requires a...ernatives. "The HUTT imaging system is a novel and potentially very useful approach to diagnostic ultrasound," said Dr. Phillip W. Ralls, a professor and vice chai...Golf-related head injuries in children increasing along with sport's popularity
...ium screws and plates and monitor the children for potentially dangerous brain swelling. He noted that most of the injuries occurred in a neighborhood or park rather than a golf course. "But it doesn't matter where you get hurt. It's the same mechanism of injury." Much like a 1996 study in North Carolina that s...Belgium doctors treating critically ill infants favour legalising euthanasia
...reatment, using drugs to alleviate pain that could potentially shorten life, or using drugs with the explicit intention of shortening the patient's life. The use of lethal drugs in minors is illegal in Belgium. However, the study found that lethal doses or lethal drugs were administered in 17 cases (9%). 95 (79%...Post-traumatic stress disorder common among refugees in western countries
...f THE LANCET. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a potentially disabling condition characterised by traumatic flash-backs, hypervigilence, and emotional numbing that might be a risk factor for substance abuse and suicide. About 13 million people are classified as refugees worldwide. Refugees could be at excess r...Lupus and the role of Epstein-Barr virus
...ommonly referred to as lupus. Lupus is a chronic, potentially debilitating autoimmune disease that more often affects women and is also more common in African Americans. Although the specific cause of lupus is not yet known, both genetic and environmental triggers are likely to be involved. To determine if the...Lack of vigorous activity linked to functional decline in older adults with arthritis
...to affect almost 40 million Americans over age 65, potentially increasing the ranks of senior citizens with disab...lth conditions. The researchers also took note of potentially unhealthy behaviors, including smoking, alcohol use, extreme weight gain or loss, and a sedentary li...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...55, the age group most at risk of later developing potentially fatal heart failure, a new four-year study reports. The findings by researchers at Johns Hopkins, to be published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine online April 11, call into question the effectiveness of national guidelines on exercise f...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...d distribution networks. Nanotechnology could also potentially reduce transportation costs and even required dosa...l spills; both the nanoparticles and the oil could potentially be recycled. The South African Nanotechnology Initiative is a national network of academic researche...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
...nhance primary and secondary prevention efforts by potentially providing increased interaction with health care providers, increased cognitions about one's own cancer risk, and reinforcement for smoking abstinence with lung CT scan screening."...Few women at risk for breast cancer willing to use drug to prevent the disease
...7.6 percent of women over 50 in the study who were potentially eligible to take it would take tamoxifen. Even among women who had heard of tamoxifen, few were inclined to try it, and very few changed their minds after the educational session. Surprisingly, the decision to use or not use tamoxifen was independent...Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
... called noncomedo DCIS, while incidence rates of a potentially more aggressive type, called comedo DCIS, have declined during the last five years. "This suggests a further downshifting of severity within in situ cancers themselves," Li said. The researchers also found that rates of a less common precancerous con...Probable cause sequences for WTC collapses finalized
...a number of future practices and technologies that potentially could have enhanced building performance and life safety capabilities on 9-11 had they been available for implementation. All are being considered for NIST's upcoming recommendations. NIST also released drafts of 15 reports from three projects of the...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...ms with heart attack symptoms do not receive these potentially life-saving drugs. One reason cited for this under-usage is that many physicians may be overly albeit sometimes justifiably -- concerned about potential adverse events due to incorrect dosing, the researchers said. The drugs, known as fibrinolytic a...Adverse outcomes from blood clot therapy may be due to patient characteristics, not dosing errors
...rs write. "When identifying an incorrect dose of a potentially toxic drug associated with an adverse outcome, the reflex and logical conclusion is to assume cause, particularly in malpractice litigation that is principally driven by adverse outcomes. However, this study raises the possibility that much of the ad...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
.... "Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex," Maher claims, though it is arguable how many young women have even heard of the virus. Meanwhile in developing countries, where 80 per cent of deaths from cervical cancer o...Can hospital data detect poor performing doctors?
...thod is warranted, but our overall approach may be potentially useful in other settings, especially where performance entails several indicator variables," they conclude....Obesity linked to risk of severe headaches
...of body mass index on frequency, severity, and the potentially disabling effects of headaches. An individual's body mass index helps to determine his or her individual weight-related health problems according to height and weight. Out of 143,433 participants reached by phone, researchers identified 30,850 people...Researchers find that chocolate compound stops cancer cell cycle in lab experiments
...are all kinds of chemicals in the food we eat that potentially have effects on cancer cells, and a natural compou... in breast cancer cell cultures, the finding could potentially apply to other cancers, Dickson said. (The studies are being funded by MARS Incorporated.) Chocola...